Senior Data Engineer

Government Recruitment Service; Croydon Shire; On-site; AUD 83,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service is hiring a Senior Data Engineer in Croydon to lead the development and governance of the enterprise data architecture. You will enable analytics, AI capabilities and secure data solutions across Dynamics 365, Dataverse and Azure services.

The role involves translating data requirements into robust engineering solutions, providing technical leadership, mentoring peers, and collaborating with data scientists and delivery teams to ensure reliability and cost

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience.
• Experience with data governance and security standards.
• Ability to lead and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines across Microsoft Fabric and OneLake.
• Create reusable data components, datasets, and data products for analytics and AI workloads.
• Implement validation, lineage, metadata, governance and security controls.

Skills

Data engineering

Data pipelines

Mentoring

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

OneLake

Azure services

Job description

Senior Data Engineer

For nearly 150 years, we've protected the UK economy with deep expertise and rigour, building the confidence that helps businesses access lending, investment and opportunity.

We help people deal with personal insolvency. We make statutory redundancy payments when insolvent employers can't. We investigate director conduct and take action where it's needed.

And right now, we're changing how we do all of this, becoming faster, more digitally driven, and more focused on stopping problems before they

More than 2,000 of us work in offices across England, Scotland and Wales. It might be time for you to join us.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer who wants more than a job that ticks boxes.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will lead the development and governance of our enterprise architecture, helping the Insolvency Service align its technology with organisational strategy, digital transformation and secure-by-design principles. Your work will support long-term capability, operational resilience and value for money. This supports creating a modern, sustainable Insolvency Service by aligning technology decisions with our long-term organisational needs.

This is a role for someone who wants to think bigger, challenge the way things have always been done, and take ownership of the outcomes that matter.

We offer full-time, part-time, job share, and flexible working. We invest in your development and give our people the space to grow, take ownership and make decisions.

Reporting to the Head of Data & Technology, you will join the team, helping turn organisational data into trusted information.

You will work across Microsoft Fabric, OneLake and other organisational systems to develop secure, appropriately governed data solutions. This will include integrating information from sources such as Dynamics 365, Dataverse and Azure services to support analytics, reporting and AI.

Working with technical teams, third‑party suppliers, data scientists and analysts, you will translate data requirements into robust engineering solutions. You will also provide technical leadership, support other engineers and act as an escalation point for complex data engineering and pipeline issues.

Responsibilities

• design, develop and maintain complex data ingestion, transformation and integration pipelines using Microsoft Fabric, OneLake and organisational data sources
• develop reusable engineering components, trusted datasets and data products to support analytics, reporting, Azure AI and machine-learning workloads
• implement validation, reconciliation and quality controls, ensuring that data solutions meet agreed lineage, metadata, governance and security standards
• implement CI/CD, automated testing and DataOps practices, optimising pipelines for performance, scalability, resilience and cost
• monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines, lead root-cause analysis and work with development security operations (DevSecOps), artificial intelligence operations (AIOps) and Application Support to improve operational reliability
• work with data scientists, analysts, delivery teams and suppliers to translate requirements into robust solutions, supported by appropriate documentation and recovery procedures
• provide technical leadership and management support to other engineers through mentoring, peer review and technical assurance, contributing to engineering standards and continuous improvement.

Job Details

Company: Government Recruitment Service

Salary: £48,429 to £48,429 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Croydon

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 26 Oct 2026

Closing date: 9 Nov 2026

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